Picric-acid [Pic-ac]
Tonic and clonic spasms; keep legs wide apart when standing; looks steadily at objects as if make them out; limbs too weak to support the body; terrible erections and copious emissions with restless sleep; great sexual desire; heaviness of legs with tingling.
Rhus-tox [Rhus-t]
Myelitis from trauma, concussion or dampness; contractive sensation as if the sinews were shortened; numbness, with tingling and loss of sensibility; tremors.
Secale-corn [Sec]
Myelomeningitis; muscular twitchings beginning in face and spreading over body; spasm of tongue, constriction in epigastrium, palpitations, tingling in back extending to fingers and toes; irregular movements of the whole body; convulsive jerks and shocks in the palsied limbs; painful contractions of the flexor muscles; paralysis of bladder and rectum; paraplegia; gangrene.
Stramonium [Stram]
Trembling contractions; tonic epileptoid convulsions, but with consciousness undisturbed; sudden jerks through the body; spots in back pain when touched; constant pain in cervical and upper dorsal vertebrae; muscles will not obey the will; alternate exaltation, and melancholy; VERTIGO WHEN WALKING IN DARK, day or night, diplopia, cloudiness of vision; strabismus; stammering speech or aphonia; spasms of muscles of face, or twitching of single parts; trembling or paralysis of limbs.
Sulphur [Sulph]
Burning and tensive aching between scapulae; heat on top of head; palpitation of heart; insomnia; congestion of lumbar spine, followed by retention of urine and paraplegia.
Tarentula-hisp [Tarent]
EXCESSIVE HYPERAESTHESIA, the least excitement irritates, to be followed by languor and sadness; slight touch along spine provokes spasmodic pains in chest and indescribable distress in cardiac region; at times the heart feels as if it twisted over (spiral fibers); intense headache, as if thousands of needles were pricking into the brain, (>) by rubbing head against pillow; burning heat of body.
Zincum [Zinc]
Desponding and sad; spinal irritation, with pains only when sitting; violent, long-lasting, aching pains in last lumbar vertebrae, (<) sitting, (>) standing; BURNING PAIN ALONG WHOLE SPINE, pressure inn pit of stomach; hard pressure in sides of abdomen, hypochondria and back; dry, insufficient stool; burning at anus; anxiety and burning in chest; frequent palpitations of heart, without anxiety; constant pain in back and loins as to render life a misery, (<) afternoon and evening, also in a warm room; (>) in open air.
Dr. Samuel Lilienthal was the author of many great books including “Homeopathic Therapeutics”. For many years, with the support of Dr. Constantine Hering, he was the editor of the North American Journal of Homeopathy. Dr. Lilienthal passed away on February 2nd 1891 in San Francisco.